Universal Basic Education Board (UBEB) adoptes the use of Educating Nigeria Girls in New Enterprises (ENGINE II) - Code of conduct for non-formal education

Universal Basic Education Board (UBEB) FCT

The Universal Basic Education Board (UBEB) of the Federal Capital Territory ( FCT) has adopted the use of the Educating Nigeria Girls in New Enterprises (ENGINE II) Code of Conduct developed for adult and non-formal education learning centres.

Initiated by an NGO, the Tabitha Cumi Foundation (TCF), the code of conduct was developed by the National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult and Non-formal Education (NMEC) and ENGINE II, a project sponsored by DFID for marginalized girls in rural communities.

Bako Hussaini, a deputy director in the board, who represented the Director, Dr. Adamu Noma, while receiving the documents from the team, said the Code of Conduct of Child and Vulnerable Adults Protection (CVAP) and life skills manuals were used in over 800 primary schools and junior secondary schools in the territory.

He added that the board would empower and equip many girls with knowledge and response mechanisms on CVAP through the post-ENGINE programme, considering the rising incidences of violence and girl abuse across the country.

He further said the partners had helped to improve girls 'attendance at school in rural communities, adding that girls' focus was because the percentage of out-of-school girls became alarming.

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NMEC's Executive Secretary, Prof. Abubakar Haladu, said the code of conduct was meant to provide some sort of regulation and safeguard learners wherever they are in the country.

This document is very important to us because non-formal centres in the country have a written course in the way they carry out their activities, but this seems to be the first time a code of conduct is written in order to guide and regulate the conduct of a non-formal education activities in the country,” he said.

Mrs. Tayo Erinle, Executive Director (TCF), said while using the MNEC Radio Literacy program to teach primary and post-basic learners in far-reaching communities that did not have android cell phones during the COVID-19 lockdown, they had code of conduct on which they worked for formal education within the FCT and initiated it for non-formal learners.